In Fever Pitch, Nick Hornby tells us what a match requires to be “really, truly memorable.” He wants as many of the following as possible (and I paraphrase): goals, bad refereeing decisions, a noisy Crowd, rain etc, opposition misses a penalty, opposition recieves a red card, a disgraceful incident. I’m with him on everything except maybe the disgraceful incident. And I would add to the list: A short bout of bad football from one’s own side . There’s probably a better way to phrase it, bu